Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Naming and re-naming

is every parallel act admirable? is every change liberation? myanmar, renamed by a truly evil dictatorship??

congo to zaire to congo.... all this to be likened to sankara's renaming of upper volta? no, not really the same at all at all.

when, also, do people reappropriate names? like cameroon.

or any other name, for that matter?

ken

kenneth harrow

professor emeritus

dept of english

michigan state university

517 803-8839

harrow@msu.edu

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"-British named them Burma.They rejected it, restructured & renamed themselves Myanmar.

-British named them Upper Volta, but they rejected it, restructured and renamed themselves Burkina Faso-Land of Incorruptible People.

-British named them Gold Coast, they rejected it, restructured and renamed themselves Ghana.

-British named them Southern Rhodesia.They rejected it, restructured and renamed themselves Zimbabwe.

-Brits named them Northern Rhodesia.They rejected it, restructured and renamed themselves Zambia.

-Brits named them Tanganyika.They rejected it restructured & renamed themselves Tanzania.

-Germans named them colony of South West Africa.They rejected it, restructured and renamed themselves.Namibia.

-France named them Dahomey.They rejected it, restructured and renamed themselves Benin.

-Belgium named them Zaire.However, they rejected it, restructured & renamed themselves Democratic Republic of Congo(DRC).

-Britain named a bunch of people-Nigeria.They rather kill to serve it than restructure and give themselves a befitting name.

"It is only an animal that bears the name that is given to it by its enemy" (Proverb)."

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